it caught the attention of chicago sun times reporter bob green and the principal. >> i was called on the carpet in charge of student discipline and he threatened to suspends me from school if i ever did it again. i promised to never do it again as long as i was at that school which was only for a couple of weeks so it was easy to keep. >> reporter: now he has ever manner from some of the game's greatest players. >> those were ted's personal copy of what they call hitter's hands. bronze casts of his hands holding one of his bats. that's the paragraph of warren spawn which was last photo ever taken of him. tim brown, clearly one of the greatest athletes of all time. not just football player but he was great at everything he did. >> reporter: those from the world after music grace his office as well. you have bruce springsteen and you have beethoven? >> we like to play beethoven for the kids before they go to sleep at night. >> reporter: there are the rarities like this knute rockne hand drawn play from 1918 and his star players the back field known as the four horsemen. those of local